01-10-2019, 02:31 PM
(01-10-2019, 01:47 PM)Dill Wrote: Just have to say, I appreciate the precision of these comparisons.
I might add another--during Obama's presidency, as unemployment steadily dropped, a metric dubbed "the REAL Unemployment Rate" began appearing in news media to explain why the government was supposedly "lying" about the steadily improving economy under the worst president ever. Don't believe the positive numbers!
https://www.forbes.com/sites/peterferrara/2012/10/11/obamas-real-unemployment-rate-is-14-7-and-a-recessions-on-the-way/#2c10c86b9cdc
Under Trump this is briefly flipped and redeployed, as Trump himself began claiming the REAL Unemployment Rate is actually LOWER than the stats show.
https://www.npr.org/2017/01/29/511493685/ahead-of-trumps-first-jobs-report-a-look-at-his-remarks-on-the-numbers
Other than that, we hardly hear any reference to the real unemployment rate anymore. It is not a wholly fictitious/meritless metric; I just don't recall seeing it deployed almost weekly against other presidents as it was against Obama, as if this were a new, more accurate and "real" picture of what was happening behind all those misleading government stats. Then suddenly, gone.
I wish I had the patience to get into these conversations. I often think about what I would add or clarify or what have you, but then I realize that it would be wasted. The people that need the information will ignore it, and those that already know will be the only ones to read it.
"A great democracy has got to be progressive, or it will soon cease to be either great or a democracy..." - TR
"The test of our progress is not whether we add more to the abundance of those who have much; it is whether we provide enough for those who have too little." - FDR
"The test of our progress is not whether we add more to the abundance of those who have much; it is whether we provide enough for those who have too little." - FDR
